Worlds Largest Record Collection

BryanWeb

Very impressive.
And what a cool wife! I wish my girl would let me keep a few million albums around the house. lol

DewieCox

Big Drop wrote:

DewieCox wrote:

magicredbengal wrote:

Almost 100k registered PJ fans, the majority of us loving vinyl. Any chance we could start a grass roots campaign to collect funds, purchase, and donate this majestic beauty? Personally $20 is stretching it for my pockets but if collectively we make a dent, it has to get recognized by someone who cares and can make a dent. This collection deserves a museum and to be preserved and enjoyed.

I have no idea how to start on this idea other than to post this response here and hope maybe someone takes my idea an inch further.

Not that good of an idea if you're just gonna put it in a museum.

Why is putting it in a museum not a good idea? That's where it belongs. I would gladly donate 20 bucks to a fund to purchase this collection and ensure its preservation for generations to come. I wish there was a way we could actually get something like this going.

Don't most museums put stuff under glass or generally out of reach? Have a hard time enjoying music by just looking at it.

Abe Froman

dimitrispearljam wrote:

so beautiful to watch it

Also was very sad for me. I agree with him. I hate the way things are headed with music. I try to turn on as many people as i can onto vinyl.

Break The Sky

DewieCox wrote:

Big Drop wrote:

DewieCox wrote:

Not that good of an idea if you're just gonna put it in a museum.

Why is putting it in a museum not a good idea? That's where it belongs. I would gladly donate 20 bucks to a fund to purchase this collection and ensure its preservation for generations to come. I wish there was a way we could actually get something like this going.

Don't most museums put stuff under glass or generally out of reach? Have a hard time enjoying music by just looking at it.

Without sounding snotty, because I am not trying to come across that way, I really fear most people in the general public do not understand what the function of the museum truly is. I'm in the process of getting my MA in Museum Studies and I can say that it's a daunting task trying to explain what I really do.

Museums are not created simply to keep things locked up away from the general public for the rest of time. If we wanted to keep something in a dark room where no one can use it but we still knew it was there, we could put it in a time capsule and bury it in the dirt, not place it in a museum. A museum is a place where professionals try to make preservation and functionality coincide. If this collection were in a museum, yes, it would be kept safe where it would be preserved, but so much more use would be made of it. It would kept in an archive where, depending on the museum, it could be accessed by the literati and members of academia as well as students, museum members, or even museum guests.

Due to the waning interest in museums by the general public, many museums are trying to broaden their reach to the general public. Just as I take Civil War era journals and transcribe them for my museum's website for anyone on the internet to read, I would expect any museum with this collection would transcribe the music on these records onto a server where they are easily accessible by anyone with an internet connection. Museums are continually rotating their collection, and on different days different records from this collection would be exhibited on display for guests as well as played for them. Through all this, the museum can balance its duties in preserving and promoting the collection.

I can tell you out of personal knowledge that preservation is the most important aspect of our occupation as a museum specialist, however, without interest from the general public, there will be no museums for us to preserve artifacts in. Because of this, museums will often times risk the indefinite preservation of an item in order to keep business flowing.

Without guests, there are no museums, regardless of how well the artifacts within that museum are preserved. If this collection made it into a museum, I can promise you it would be much more accessible than if it ended up in the hands of a private owner.

Trust me, private owner = bad. Museum = good.

rafie

Big Drop wrote:

Without sounding snotty, because I am not trying to come across that way, I really fear most people in the general public do not understand what the function of the museum truly is. I'm in the process of getting my MA in Museum Studies and I can say that it's a daunting task trying to explain what I really do.

Museums are not created simply to keep things locked up away from the general public for the rest of time. If we wanted to keep something in a dark room where no one can use it but we still knew it was there, we could put it in a time capsule and bury it in the dirt, not place it in a museum. A museum is a place where professionals try to make preservation and functionality coincide. If this collection were in a museum, yes, it would be kept safe where it would be preserved, but so much more use would be made of it. It would kept in an archive where, depending on the museum, it could be accessed by the literati and members of academia as well as students, museum members, or even museum guests.

Due to the waning interest in museums by the general public, many museums are trying to broaden their reach to the general public. Just as I take Civil War era journals and transcribe them for my museum's website for anyone on the internet to read, I would expect any museum with this collection would transcribe the music on these records onto a server where they are easily accessible by anyone with an internet connection. Museums are continually rotating their collection, and on different days different records from this collection would be exhibited on display for guests as well as played for them. Through all this, the museum can balance its duties in preserving and promoting the collection.

I can tell you out of personal knowledge that preservation is the most important aspect of our occupation as a museum specialist, however, without interest from the general public, there will be no museums for us to preserve artifacts in. Because of this, museums will often times risk the indefinite preservation of an item in order to keep business flowing.

Without guests, there are no museums, regardless of how well the artifacts within that museum are preserved. If this collection made it into a museum, I can promise you it would be much more accessible than if it ended up in the hands of a private owner.

Trust me, private owner = bad. Museum = good.

I worked at a museum for 3 1/2 years and barely any of the exhibits were behind glass. It was a very hands on museum. I also remember being at some kind of music museum in Nashville a few years back and it was extremely hands on.

Break The Sky

rafie wrote:

I worked at a museum for 3 1/2 years and barely any of the exhibits were behind glass. It was a very hands on museum. I also remember being at some kind of music museum in Nashville a few years back and it was extremely hands on.

Thank you so much for speaking up about this. I really fear sometimes that I've spent the last 6 years of my life going to school for something that might not exist by the time I want to retire.

I most certainly would listen to someone who has a photo of himself and Mike McCready at a museum.

rafie

Big Drop wrote:

rafie wrote:

I worked at a museum for 3 1/2 years and barely any of the exhibits were behind glass. It was a very hands on museum. I also remember being at some kind of music museum in Nashville a few years back and it was extremely hands on.

Thank you so much for speaking up about this. I really fear sometimes that I've spent the last 6 years of my life going to school for something that might not exist by the time I want to retire.

I most certainly would listen to someone who has a photo of himself and Mike McCready at a museum.

BryanWeb

Does he have all the ten club holiday singles?

capthowdy1027

That was amazing. It's just flat out sad that there is nobody out there offering him the $3 million for it.

And you know, him being blind kind of made me think. I wonder when that happened to him? It's one of those things were he has to thank somebody of a higher power that he didn't go deaf instead. They always say that when you lose one of your senses that the other ones pick up ever greater though. I bet those records sound even better to him now than they even did.

Great find though, thank you for posting.

My3rdEye

Big Drop wrote:

I noticed how he continually referred to everyone as "them out there". I just wish he knew there was some of us out here who could not be more thankful for what he has done. I wish I had his email or something so I could tell him there are some people out there who share his passion for vinyl.

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Break The Sky

My3rdEye wrote:

Big Drop wrote:

I noticed how he continually referred to everyone as "them out there". I just wish he knew there was some of us out here who could not be more thankful for what he has done. I wish I had his email or something so I could tell him there are some people out there who share his passion for vinyl.

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That's awesome! Thank you so much! I wish I could get the ball rolling on this. I really think that there are enough people out there that would donate 20 dollars to get this collection into a museum. This collection is more valuable than Lincoln's rocker or the first American flag, because it doesn't just embody one concept or symbol, it represents the culmination of our artistic expression as a society. Maybe I'll write the Ten Club about this. Maybe with a little help from the top we can get the ball moving. A national hero does not get buried in a pauper's grave and a collection of this magnitude does not deserve to fall apart due to general disinterest.

keeponrockin

What I love about music is every day I could find a song or artist I've never heard before and instantly fall in love with it. Imagine what I could find in there?

spat

OK, all the good feelings aside of how great this collection is the effort he put into it, I think the problem is he's become too damn cynical. To be saying stuff like nobody gives a damn and the world is dead, why? because he's trying to sell his ENTIRE collection in one shot and he's surprised that there aren't any takers yet? that's pretty insulting if you ask me. Rather than sit around waiting for someone to write him a check for 3 million dollars he should start chipping away at it selling lots on ebay or something. I know i'd be there checking out everyone one of them.

joely_91

collection like that doesnt deserve to be on ebay..... not saying we arent worthy of it and I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate some of those records...but imo it needs to be placed into a museum type thing...breaking it up wouldnt be fair to what this guy has done in terms of amassing them all.